Show I IWay Way Back Bad When WhenBy By JEANNE FORMER MAYOR MA yon WAS A SONG SONGWRITER SONGWRITER SONGWRITER WRITER THERE THERE were twelve children In our family and it was necessary to have a n pretty strict rule about being reasonably quiet In the house and at the dinner table My father repeated so often Children are to tobe tobe tobe be seen and not heard or Silence is golden that just jus justo to think of those old adages brings back the echo of his voice I cant can't agree with the principle of those sayings Chil Chil- Children Children dren who are encouraged to join in inthe inthe inthe the conversation are likely to have more self-confidence self and to be more social minded In some cases their very talkativeness may be golden Take Jimmy Walker for instance James John Walker who later be be- became became came mayor of New York City and was one of the most popular men menever menever menever ever to hold that office was born in New Yorks York's Greenwich Village in 1881 When still a very small boy he was nick-named nick Jimmy Talker because he could not be r rl l i cwt tt kept quiet His father was run ring ning for Cor alderman at one time and Jimmy was sent to explain that he could not be present at a polito political political ical rally because of illness The I crowd called for a speech from i ithe the young boy and he did so well wen i that his father was elected i Jimmy Jimm Walker went to school in New Mew York City and studied law but for a while it looked as though he might be a professional song songwriter songwriter songwriter writer instead of a lawyer or a politician He wrote several songs I which were published and made a national hit by composing Will You Love Me in December As You Did in May None of his other songs enjoyed the popularity of this one however and Jimmy decided upon a more conventional career He went to work as a clerk for forthe forthe forthe the Union Surety Guarantee com com- company company pany and with his earnings re re- returned returned re- re returned turned to law school He established established a fine law practice and be be- became became came more and more prominent in politics In 1925 he was elected mayor of New York City and en en- enjoyed enjoyed joyed more mass popularity than any mayor of recent times has known there INVENTOR RAN BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP HP T HE seed of success is ambition A and Orville Wright was ambi ambi- ambitious ambitious from early boyhood He was born in Dayton Ohio in 1871 the youngest of five children and as they grew up Orville and one of his older brothers Wilbur became in in- in separable A highly respectable western mid family the father was wasa a bishop of the United Brethren church and later publisher of a re religious religious newspaper but the family never had a lot of money mone Or Or- Orville Orville Orville ville Wright started to make money ck t- t i ito r elk 1 early in to life life going about the neigh neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood and collecting old bones to sell to a fertilizing plant When he was fourteen he published a school paper with a toy printing press Lat Lat- Later Later er he lie made a press of his own and Wilbur improved it Next he invent invent- invented invented ed a paper folding machine for his fathers father's print shop He Hc quit school in the third year of high school and with Wilbur started a weekly news news- newspaper newspaper paper which lasted only three months They then turned to job printing and later started a bicycle repair shop At about this time they became interested in aviation and proceeded to construct the first heavier than air machine large enough to carry a man As in their previous ties tics Orville was the creative gen genius lus ius ius Wilbur the Their first successful flight light was at Kitty Hawk N C. C in 1903 and the sue cess of aviation was assured when Orville made a flight lasting 62 min minutes min min- minutes utes and 15 seconds in 1908 1903 Service |